Ebeye
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Kwajalein Atoll | |
| Geographical location | 8 ° 46 '49 " N , 167 ° 44' 14" E | |
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| length | 2.1 km | |
| width | 390 m | |
| surface | 36 ha | |
| Residents | 9345 (1999) 25,958 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Ebeye | |
Ebeye is the most densely populated island in the Kwajalein Atoll and the entire oceanic state of the Marshall Islands . Ebeye is the second largest municipality in absolute terms. More than 9,300 people (almost a fifth of the total population of the country) live here on an area of around 36 hectares, which makes it one of the most densely populated places on earth. It is the most important center of the Ralik chain , the western part of the Marshall Islands.
Residents of Ebehe work today at the US Army's missile testing site in Kwajalein Atoll, 5 km away .
history
From 1906 Ebeye belonged to the German New Guinea colony .
Part of the population is descended from evacuated Marshallers. On March 1, 1954, the 15 megaton bomb "Bravo" exploded in Bikini Atoll . Their fallout contaminated the neighboring Rongelap Atoll , so that many residents became radiation sick and newborns were often badly deformed. Greenpeace finally helped those affected to relocate to Ebeye.
literature
- Fritz W. Kramer : Bikini. Atomic test area in the Pacific (= Wagenbach's pocket library 380). Wagenbach, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8031-2380-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Barbara Rose Johnston, Atomic Times in the Pacific. Anthropology Now 1/2, Special Atomic Issue (September 2009), 3rd JSTOR 41203536
